Re: pclinuxos book

ray wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:27:43 -0700, Day Brown wrote:


On Mar 22, 1:54 pm, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The best way to learn Linux is to simply install it and use it. Refer
to the man pages as needed and ask for help on Usenet.

Years ago, when I started with Linux, I had a 486. And when I tried to
use the man pages, it was start the search and then go out for coffee.
It could take a half hour or more churning the drive looking for
something.

Even now, man dont have an index, so you dont know if there's a page of
anything similar. And be sure to use "man" and not "MAN". Sometimes you
find nothing, other times you are snowed with trivia.


You might try 'xman' - it has an index built in.

Another good distro to start out with is Ubuntu. And one of the best Linux (and Unix) authors around is Mark Sobell. The two are combined in Sobell's recent book on Ubuntu (which includes a DVD of the 7.10 version of the distro) - I can't think of a better place to start than that. Sobell also has a book on Red Hat/ Fedora, which includes a Fedora disk, but that is on a relatively old version. Sobell also has a book on Linux administration and shell programming, but that's for after you get past the raw newbie stage.
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